Billion Years

Famous quotes containing the words billion years, billion and/or years:

    Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production—only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
    Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production—only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
    Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.
    Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)